Non-refillable bottle.



PATENTED FEB. 27, 1906.

S. P. ETTINGER. NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

APPLICATION FILED APB..13, 1905.

4' III/ 15ml FEE 27,962; wvawcoz SAMUEL F. ETTINGER, OF LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS.

NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 27, 1906.

Application filed April 13, 1905. Serial No. 255,337.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL F. ETTINGER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Little Rock, in the county of Pulaski and State of Arkansas, have invented a new and useful Non-Refillable Bottle, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in non-refillable bottles.

The object of the present invention is to improve the construction of non-refillable bottles and to provide a simple and comparatively inexpensive construction adapted after a bottle or analogous receptacle has received its original contents to prevent the contents from being adulterated and the bottle from being refilled.

A further object of the invention is to provide a device of this character adapted to be readily applied to a bottle and capable of permitting the contents thereof to be freely poured therefrom.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arran ement of parts hereinafter fully described, ilTustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claim hereto appended, it being understood that various changes in the form, proportion, size, and minor details of construction within the scope of the claim may be resorted to without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view of the upper portion of a non-refillable bottle constructed in accordance with this invention, the threaded sleeve being shown in elevation. Fig. 2 is a similar view, the sleeve and the stopper being shown in section. Fig. 3 is a sectional view illustrating the position of the parts when the bottle is inverted for pourin out its contents.

Like numerals of reference desi nate corresponding parts in all the figures of the drawm s.

1 designates a bottle provided with a thickened neck 2, the walls of which taper from the base of the neck to the upper edges thereof and form a downwardly-tapered passage 3. The outer face of the neck of the bottle is preferably vertical, as shown, and the lower portion of the neck forms an interior seat for a tapering cup-shaped valve 4, consisting of a thin shell of glass or other suitable material, provided with a flat .bottom and having downwardly-inclined sides to fit against the inner face of the neck of the bottle when the valve is on its seat. The upper portion of the neck is provided with interior screwthreads 5 and receives a collar or sleeve 6, forming a partial plug, and provided with a central cylindrical opening 7, adapted to receive a stopper or cork 8 of the ordinary construction. The collar or sleeve 6, which is spaced fromthe valve-seat to form a valvechamber, is provided with exterior screwthreads 9, which engage the threaded portion of the neck, and when assembling the parts the threads of the neck and the collar or sleeve are brushed with cement, so that the sleeve will be securely fastened within the neck and efiectually prevented from bein removed therefrom without breaking the neo of the bottle or otherreceptacle. The central cylindrical opening 7 has vertical walls, and the cork after being driven into the opening is designedto be cut off flush with the upper face of the sleeve or collar, which is flush with the upper edges of the neck of the bottle. The cylindrical opening may extend entirely through the sleeve or collar, as clearly shown in Figs. 2 and 3. The lower edge of the sleeve or collar is fluted or corrugated to form projecting portions 10 and intervening passages 11. The projecting portions 10 are adapted to receive and offset the valve from the outer or upper walls of the passages 11, so that the contents of the bottle will flow freely from the same when the bottle is inverted.

If desired, a glass ball 12 may be arranged within the bottle for engaging the valve to assist in opening the valve should the liquid contents of the bottle cause the valve to adhere to its seat. When the bottle is inverted, the ball will roll against the bottom of the valve and unseat the same.

Should any attempt be made to introduce a liquid into the bottle when the same is in an upright position, such liquid will be received within the cup-shaped valve and hold the latter firmly on its seat. Any exterior pres sure will also operate to seat the cup-shaped valve, which is designed to be made sufficiently light to effect this result. Also any breakage of the valve will indicate that the bottle or other receptacle had been tampered with, and the same could not, therefore, be sold as an original package.

Having thus fully described my invention, what 1 claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination with a receptacle pro- I cup-shaped valve arran ed Within the lower vided with a neck having a continuous interior taper, the lower portion of the tapering interior forming a valve-seat, and the upper portion being provided With screw-threads, a tapering plug exteriorly threaded to engage the tapered threaded portion of the neck and provided at the bottom With spaced projections forming supporting portions and providing intervening passages, said plug having a stopper-receiving opening, and a taperlng portion of the neck an adapted to be sup ported by the said projections when the receptacle is inverted.

- In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

SAMUEL F. ETTINGER. Witnesses:

ANTON LETzKUs, M. E. OKEN. 

